#Affection

"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."

"I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you're poking fun at someone or something, there's still an affection for it."

"Flowers are aromatic and romantic, and they grow exactly the way love does—with plenty of light, and watered with affection."

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

"I had a dream about you. We went for a walk, though we didn’t hold hands because we went in separate directions. As I walked alone I thought about how you had the funniest way of showing affection to me."

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."

"Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn."

"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods."

"A starving man asleep dreams of food, and even a crumb becomes a feast. When you’re hungry for affection even a no is better than being ignored."

"We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief."

"I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me."

"If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me."

"You know what I like most about people? Pets."

"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."

"Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole."

"You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue."

"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me."

"We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him."

"Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly."

"Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently."